In your opinion who makes the best tiler nippers???

[bugs183]

I seem to finding my trusty Rubi nippers are not lasting very long, most of my cuts are wet sawn, but when tweaking i use the Rubi's, used to use Bal, but they were not a path on Rubi. Has anyone found another make they are impressed with?? Has anyone tried Karl Dahm?

 

[Olz]

Mine current set are rubi but they are showing signs of wear now. There a couple of years old.


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[Time's Ran Out]

My first 'tile nippers' where pinchers from a second hand shop many years ago. Now I use Gemini as they are competitively priced and seem to last as long as most, unless you try to use them on half inch quarries or hard porcelain - just glad we have angle grinders and diamond blades now.

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

i used pincher and pliers too john, but this last mosaic job just the angle grinder progress lol

 

[Gazzer]

Still rate the Rubi nippers but you can sometimes get a bad pair...my last set are still going strong after 2 years but as already said its probably down to them getting less use with other methods now more in use such as the angle grinder.

 

[Peter]

My current ones are made by Draper, I think. Got them about 3 years ago and still got a full set of teeth after cutting round many toilet pans and pulling out the odd nail.

Not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but as a general rule of thumb the ones with the blue handles seem to wear far better than red handled brands. Not sure if these tool companies actually make their own or if they're all buying unbranded nippers from Taiwan and putting them in their own packaging. Either way, any red pair I've had has been ready for the bin after a year.